Kinsela found not guilty

Don Kinsela hands a cup of water to his mother-in-law while waiting for a jury to return a verdict in a trial where he was charged with killing his wife in a July 2010 fire.

Don Kinsela, left, bares his emotions after a jury reaches a not guilty verdict after a long trial where he was accused of burning and killing his wife in July 2010. Standing next to Kinsela is his mother-in-law, center, and daughter, right, both of whom have supported Kinsela since the fire.

Walt Wilkins, 13th Judicial Circuit solicitor, walks quickly out of the courtroom after a jury found Don Kinsela, right, not guilty of murder and arson charges.

Melissa Coker, Don Kinsela's daughter, sits in court moments after she heard that her father was found not guilty of murder in her mother's 2010 death.

Don Kinsela, left, bares his emotions after a jury reaches a not-guilty verdict after a long trial where he was accused of burning and killing his wife in July 2010. Standing next to Kinsela is his mother-in-law, center, and daughter, right, both of whom have supported Kinsela since the fire.

Don Kinsela reacts as he hears that a jury has found him not guilty of killing his wife in a July 2010 fire. Kinsela was cleared of the charges after a week-and-a-half trial that ended Tuesday.

Don Kinsela, 51, embraces his daughter after hearing a not-guilty verdict on murder and arson charges, a verdict that ended a two-and-a-half year ordeal that began when his wife died in a fire in an outbuilding behind their Easley home in July 2010.

Pickens County Clerk of Court Pat Welborn begins to read two not-guilty verdicts at the end of a murder and arson trial.

Don Kinsela and his attorney Druanne White embrace after a jury found that Kinsela is not guilty of murder and arson charges.

Prosecutors and defense attorneys go through their evidence shortly before the evidence goes into the jury room during a murder and arson trial in a Pickens courtroom.

Don Kinsela and his wife kept a neat and clean house and yard, attorneys said during his trial. Minutes before he heard a not-guilty verdict, Kinsela placed his cup on a stack of sticky notes on the defense table near his glasses.

Don Kinsela sits with his defense attorneys as a not-guilty verdict is read in a Pickens courtroom Tuesday afternoon.

Jurors reached a quick verdict of not guilty in a murder and arson trial Tuesday as they ate a lunch of pizza as Pickens County Clerk of Court Pat Welborn stood nearby.

Don Kinsela sits in court Tuesday before a jury returned a verdict of not guilty in his murder and arson trial.